ARTICLES AND OP-EDS
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September/October 2008
"A Nuclear Revival Needs New Cooperation"
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, issue 4, volume 64
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom and Martin B. Malin, Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom
In an Op-Ed in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Matthew Bunn and Martin B. Malin argue that a reinvigorated IAEA and new approaches to cooperation on nuclear safety, security, and nonproliferation are required for nuclear energy to make a significant contribution to mitigating climate change without creating undue risks.
October 1, 2008
"The Strange Failures of 'The Global War on Terror'"
Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
"Something is very wrong if the United States and allies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on a global war on terror, but the main terror group targeted continues to operate, spawns many imitators and allies, and in most parts of the world is seen either to be holding its own against the United States or maintaining considerable public support or sympathy."
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September 30, 2008
"The Fragility of the Global Nuclear Order"
The Boston Globe
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School and Ernesto Zedillo
Belfer Center Director Graham Allison joins Ernesto Zedillo, former president of Mexico, in cautioning that the global nuclear order is "under severe stress" and that the International Atomic Energy Agency must be strengthened in order to save the nonproliferation regime. The Nonproliferation Treaty, they argue, "is eroding to the point of 'irreversibility' beyond which there could be a 'cascade of proliferation.'"
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September 29, 2008
"Trouble In Paradise – The Widening Gulf Gas Deficit"
Middle East Economic Survey
By Justin Dargin, Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
DI Fellow Justin Dargin addresses the gas shortage in the Gulf in this op-ed.
September 29, 2008
"A Bailout is Just a Start"
Washington Post
By Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor
"It is impossible to predict the ultimate cost to the Treasury of the bailout and the other commitments that financial authorities have made -- this will depend primarily on the economy as well as the quality of execution and oversight. But it is very unlikely to approach $700 billion and will be spread over a number of years."
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September 29, 2008
"Problems run deeper than Wall Street"
The Korea Herald
By Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University
"With less than two months remaining before America's presidential election, much attention is focused on the state of the American economy and the challenges that it will present to the next president."
Joel Carillet
September 29, 2008
"Let the Quartet Die"
Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
"The agencies -- including Oxfam, Save the Children, Care, Christian Aid and World Vision -- said that in five of the ten main areas the Quartet had identified to improve Palestinians' daily life conditions, the situation has actually deteriorated. The situation also has worsened, rather than improved, for most Palestinians since the Annapolis peace process was launched last November. It added that the Quartet has not held Israel accountable for continuing to build settlements on occupied land, and that travel restrictions on Palestinians has also increased."
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September 25, 2008
"Only a New Constitution Can Guarantee a Better Kenya"
The Daily Nation, (Kenya)
By Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project
"The constitutional orders put in place in much of Africa, following independence, were largely a continuation of the colonial economic order. The associated governance structures are being swept aside by globalisation, demographic change, and demands for democratic liberties."
Martha Stewart
September 25, 2008
"Electric Cars, ‘Cap and Trade,’ and More"
Harvard Gazette
"Acting on Time on Energy" conference, held at Harvard on 18-19 September 2008, brought together business leaders, investors, academics and government officials, to discuss energy pollcy for the next U.S. Administration.
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September 24, 2008
"Tzipi Livni"
Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
"Her challenge is very similar to the one that her father faced in 1938 when he joined the Irgun underground in Palestine: How to safeguard a Zionist homeland and state for Jews, in a land that had been majority owned and populated by Palestinian Arabs?"
